World’s largest Glass Bridge Abruptly closes after just two weeks

​World’s longest glass bridge abruptly closes after just after two weeks.

Aerial view of the world’s longest and highest glass-bottomed bridge over the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon.

Image: Shao ying/Imaginechina/Ap

That didn’t take long.

Just two weeks after China’s Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon glass bridge opened to thousands of visitors, it had to close suddenly, with no re-opening date announced yet.

The 430-metre-long bridge, touted as the world’s longest see-through bridge, is suspended 300-metres above a valley. Government officials shut it to visitors on Friday for an “internal system update.”

Since the record-breaking bridge opened to the public on Aug. 20, it has received more than 10,000 visitors on a daily basis. According to local media reports, the attraction is only supposed to accommodate 8,000 people a day.

Tourists crowd the Zhangjiajie Grand Canyon.

Image: Shao ying/Imaginechina/Ap

On their Weibo page, the bridge’s operators posted a closure notice saying that they’ll take the next few days to work on “software and hardware” updates that are necessarily to better manage the influx of visitors. ■